The actor who played Mark Zuckerberg in a film about the social network wondered why tech elites, including the… founder of Facebookare so political instead of doing better things with their lives.
Actor Jesse Eisenberg, who played Meta’s CEO in the 2010 film “The Social Network,” suggested to HBO “Real timehost Bill Maher that the prominent tech billionaires who supported President Donald Trump’s second term are not helping humanity in their new relationship with the world leader.
“I look at it from a very specific perspective: If you’re so rich and powerful, why don’t you just spend your days doing good things for the world?” said Eisenberg.
Actor Jesse Eisenberg criticized some tech elites and their new relationship with President Trump on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” (Screenshot/”Real-time)
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump cultivated friendly relationships with several tech titans, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and later Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
After Trump’s victory — which Musk campaigned for — Bezos and Zuckerberg expressed their willingness to work together and even support the president’s second-term agenda. Bezos said he was “very hopeful” about a second term and pledged money to Trump’s inaugural fund.
At a recent New York Times summit Bezos said Trump “seems to have a lot of energy in reducing regulations.”
“My position is: If I can help him with that, I will help him. Because we have too much regulation in this country,” he added.
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Zuckerberg, after donating nearly half a billion to the Democratic Party’s get-out-the-vote efforts in 2020 and participating in what conservatives called social media censorship for years, admitted that he was inspired during the campaign by the resilience of Trump.
After Trump’s victory, Zuckerberg made waves in the tech world by announcing the end of his career the fact-checking infrastructure of sites. “We’re going to do away with fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes, which are already used on X,” he said in a video in early January.
All three — along with other major tech moguls — attended Trump’s inauguration ceremony on Monday, a move that seemed to baffle Eisenberg, who also portrayed supervillain Lex Luthor as an evil tech bro in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.”
Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos attend the inauguration. (SAUL LOEB/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
“So it’s hard for me to understand the details of what they’re doing,” the actor said. He pointed to his wife’s activism, noting that her work stands in contrast to that of the tech elites.
“You know, I married a woman who is just like this amazing activist. The only thing she thinks about all day is, “How can I help the people who are most in need?” So when I look at these incredibly powerful people, I think, ‘Why don’t you spend your day helping people?'” he said, adding, “Why do you get caught up in these weird things — things that I don’t really understand – and take away privacy concerns, hurting people who are already hurting, marginalized people?”
Again he said, “I just think, ‘Why don’t they spend every day helping people?'”
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